He has taught creative writing in prisons, psychiatric hospitals and homeless shelters and was poetry facilitator for leading London mental health charity, Core Arts establishing a creative writing class for the homeless at the Union Chapel, Islington. London-based poet Jan Noble studied Fine Art at Canterbury College of Art (now the University for the Creative Arts).

A trans-European odyssey turned safari of the soul.

This one hour, one person show is a rhapsodic paean to the trammelling ecstasy of loss. And at last, to Milan, in a season of wet weather, we arrive to find that more than just the rain awaits. Led from the limbo realm of a Calais refugee camp to the slumbering battlefields of Flanders, we travel to Paris where poet-ghosts of yesteryear throng the backstreets of Montparnasse. Invoking ancient rebellion and civil strife, through London runnels to picturesque Kent, we meet Marlowe at Millwall and Keats at Gravesend. A voyage of discovery and recovery, embracing decay and gentrification, a sense of place and the need to escape. Adapted for the stage by award winning writer and director Justin Butcher ( Scaramouche Jones, The Madness of George Dubya), Body 115 is a tale of inner and outer journeys in explicit homage to Dante’s Divine Comedy.įrom the rain-washed, subterranean underworld of Kings Cross, ‘Body 115’ – the long unidentified victim of the 1987 fire – becomes Virgil to Noble’s Dante. Body 115, an energetic blend of theatre and richly lyrical poetry, written and performed by Jan Noble opens at the Hope Theatre, London on 5 May (Press night 9 May).

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